May 15, 2006 : AT&T Adds Gaming Hosting Service

📅 May 15, 2006 - Communications carrier AT&T (att.com) announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo on Thursday that its enterprise hosting services has launched a service designed for online gaming.
This service has a dedicated team of labs and operations engineers partnered with hosting sales specialists devoted specifically to its online gaming customers. The company says its global set of data centers and its enterprise hosting services enable AT&T to provide solid infrastructure and management services to online gaming companies, including Sony Online Entertainment and its popular multiplayer online gaming titles, including EverQuest and PlanetSide. In addition, AT&T has a team dedicated to providing 24-hour customer service to its online gaming clients. The team provides near real-time information to deliver the best customer experience it can. "Our online gaming clients have a critical demand for not only the bandwidth and network capacity on demand, but also the special operations center for gaming customers," says Chris Costello, director of hosting and utility computing at AT&T. "AT&T's gaming practice has successfully tailored the way hosting services operations should function for nonstop online gaming services."

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